IT’S simple! Positivity begets positivity. One of the quickest ways to rid yourself of negative energy is to surround yourself with happy people.
Let their optimism and good cheer infect you. Seek their help when you need to look at a situation in a different way. Negative people can bring you down. While venting out angst is acceptable, you will better manage your emotions if you don’t get sucked into a vortex of negativity. Surrounding yourself with happy people willl make you happy yourself — you will find yourself perking up just a little bit more and smiling along with them later on.
Birds of the same feather flock together? It is the same in this case. If your companions are in a constant state of griping, backbiting and complaining, wouldn’t you find yourself doing the same thing later? When you talk to someone who’s depressed, don’t you feel down yourself? You might find yourself adapting to their behavior over time. While you are still conscious of it, make an effort to go with the happy-feathered flock.
So who have you been hanging out with lately? Whoever they are, I hope they’re nurturing your soul just right, and vice versa. Feeling down and negative is unavoidable, what is important is that we are able to bounce back and keep our views on life positive. We can do this easily with the help of good friends, of happy people in our circle.
April 19th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
what about when you put a smile on someones face who’s been feeling low of late.
Simply letting go of all the people in your life who seem negative, at a time when you’re near, and surrounding yourself with ‘chipper’ supposedly happy ones isn’t the answer.
More likely than not; the ones who seem happy are not facing things in their lives that they should be. Noone’s happy all of the time.
I consider myself to be a realist and an optimist most of the time. Yet i also have low moments, frustration with my lot and myself. All VERY NORMAL.
I have friends who are going through bad times but I would not walk away at a time when they need me.
Its the friends in my life who seem to high all of the time who worry me.
Some of them don’t see the damage they are doing around them by not being reflective. and some of them are so desperately wanting others to see them as happy people that they are only working towards that and not towards being better people.
There are some freinds that i, on reflection, must let go. I had a reminder when i re-read something yeasterday….. that i should surround myself with people who remind me of love. Funnily enough, the ones who are supposedly so so happy and seemingly positive, don’t make me think of love, only avoidance.
The ones who are facing their dilemas, truths about themselves, talk about why we’re here ,what needs to change and what we should be happy about right now are the ones who remind me of love, even when they are feeling low. They bring out great positivity in me and if i can make them feel better then i feel better too.
Life’s tricky. But when you’re dumped by so called friends when you need them most, they weren’t friends to begin with.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:05 am
Emotional Vampires–i call them. I’m naturally an optimist, but still a realist. Though of course i don’t cut off friends who once in a while get in a rut, i try to stay away from those who are in a habit of bringing you down (ever so discreetly), whether they’re lives are going great or not. They can’t seem to be happy for other people…poor souls. Some i have tried to help, but you can only do so much. So before you’re drowned along with them, swim away!
November 1st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I am glad that there is someone in the blog who has the same principle that I try to keep. I am sure that there are lots of people who have this awareness and are trying to do something to live it. I want to add further to what she wrote as a reflection but she already said everything in her blog what I have in mind. I wish that I wrote it first. Reading the matter is just reading and understanding until you try to integrate it in your action. If you believe on what she is saying it should not end in just raising you hand and say “I believe.” You got to start doing what you believe.
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